Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.—Cowper.
It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments helps to new conquests.—Daniel Webster.
The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against the infirm excitement of passions and vices.—Beecher.
There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.—Johnson.
We always know everything when it serves no purpose, and when the seal of the irreparable has been set upon events.—Théophile Gautier.
All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of humanity.—Bulwer-Lytton.
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Labor.—Labor is the divine law of our existence; repose is desertion and suicide.—Mazzini.
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!—Carlyle.
The fact is nothing comes; at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.—Charles Buxton.